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always for me,' said the famous rough-rider to the 

 ' Druid ' ; ' he kept hardening me on. I don't think I'd 

 ever have gone at such fences, but he had such a 

 pleasant way with him, never done hollerin' at me, I 

 couldn't help going a tickler.' 



Captain White's resolution and decision of character 

 stood him in good stead elsewhere than in the hunting- 

 field. At the time of the Reform Riots of 1831, his 

 troop of yeomanry was ordered out to quiet a disturb- 

 ance in Derbyshire. The mob was so threatening that 

 the Riot Act was read, and Captain White was 

 ordered to disperse the rioters. Before charging, how- 

 ever, the captain rode out alone into the thick of the 

 mob and cried in his stentorian voice, ' Look here, my 

 lads, I want to give you one more chance before there's 

 bloodshed. The Riot Act has been read, get away 

 peaceably like sensible chaps. I don't want to kill my 

 fellow-countrymen. But, by God ! if you don't clear off, 

 and I order my men to charge, I'll cut you down as if 

 you were so many bloody Frenchmen, make no mistake 

 about that. Now clear off.' And the mob did clear off 

 If you look at his portrait you will hardly wonder that 

 they did so. It is not the face of a man who would 

 stand being trifled with or would show much mercy if 

 his blood were up. 



He wore well,despite the hard life he had led. When he 

 was seventy, he not only looked but was far more vigorous 

 than nine men in ten who were twenty years younger. 

 On seeing him in 1862, when he was in his seventy-third 

 year, I should certainly not have taken him for more than 

 fifty, and I was then told by those who knew him 

 that he could still, like Yorick, ' keep the table on a roar ' 

 with his racy and vivacious talk, for he was an admir- 



